If you know how to cook ground beef, you can serve up a healthy one-dish meal any day of the week. Ground beef became popular as a way to make scraps of fatty beef salable. Originally the meat was chopped finely or minced, but by 1902 butchers were simply running it through the meat grinder twice along with spices and onion, and selling the resulting ground beef as "hamburger." Today ground beef is used in all sorts of dishes, from meatloaf to tacos, and Americans consume approximately 13 billion hamburgers a year.

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Cargill Meat Solutions has issued an immediate recall of almost 30,000 pounds of ground beef on fears that it might be contaminated with salmonella enteritidis. According to a CNN report, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, an arm of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, became aware of the potential problem during an ongoing investigation of an outbreak involving 33 patients in seven Northeast states, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.